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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

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The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 52, 1841-1898: Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century

Demarcation line of Alexander VI; Missions -- Philippines; Philippines -- Discovery and exploration; Philippines -- History -- Sources

Map of East India Islands, in James Bell's System of
    Geography (Glasgow, 1836), v, map 2; photographic
    facsimile from copy in Library of Harvard
    University                                             Frontispiece
    Map of the Dolores or Garbanzos Islands (the Carolinas),
    1731; photographic facsimile of original MS. map,
    drawn by Juan Antonio Cantova, S.J., in Archivo general
    de Indias, Sevilla                                               37
    Map of the Philippine and Mariana Islands; enlarged
    photographic facsimile of map in Lettres édifiantes, xi
    (Paris, M. DCC. XV), p. 74; from copy in Library of
    Harvard University                                              209
    Autograph signatures of Diego Luis San Vitores, S.J., and
    others; photographic facsimile from original MS. in Archivo
    general de Indias, Sevilla                                      337
    Map of portion of the Palaos Islands, discovered 1710 by
    expedition under Francisco Padilla; drawn by José Somera,
    chief pilot; photographic facsimile of original MS. map
    in Archivo general de Indias, Sevilla                           347
    Chart of the port of Sisiran, in the province of Camarines;
    photographic facsimile from Arandia's Ordenanzas de marina
    (Manila, 1757) between pp. 26-27; from copy in Library of
    Congress                                                        355








PREFACE


In this final documentary volume of our series we present matter which
is planned to bring out the salient points of the highly important
period from 1841 to 1898, a little more than the last half-century
of the Spanish régime, together with such bibliographical aids as
will enable students to find readily the best and most available
sources for the history of that time. The first two documents (written
respectively by a civil official and a military commander) furnish
a reliable and intelligent survey, by eyewitnesses, of political,
economic, and social conditions in the islands in 1842-43; and thus
supplement the similar relations (in VOL. LI) dated fifteen years
earlier. The admirable paper by James A. LeRoy who is well known as the
leading authority on Philippine affairs, places before our readers a
clear and orderly review of the last four decades of Spanish rule in
Filipinas--with keen but impartial comments on conditions, events,
and men therein; and with full and well-selected bibliographical
references to the best works on the subject. It gives us pleasure
to present here the hitherto unpublished constitution of the Liga
Filipina, from Rizal's own MS. draft; and the friar memorial of 1898
(a curiously mediæval document for the end of the nineteenth century),
which heretofore had appeared only in a limited Spanish edition and
a partial and unsatisfactory English translation. To these documents
is added an appendix on agricultural conditions in Filipinas, giving a

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